Last Movie You Watched

Caught Train to Busan over the wknd and finally see what the hype's been about.  Good flick.

Saw The Fall Guy with my wife and that was great! I didn’t dig into it the premise in the commercial hooked me. But come on! He’s Colt Severs! LFG. Gosling and Blume are cute. The film is a great love letter to stunt men much like the TV show tried to do. It’s been a long time but I enjoyed the TV show. I loved this film. It is so well done. Not many twists like Bullet Train but it had the same momentum. It’s well worth a watch.

Thwipp!

Caught the first 1.5hr of Kingdom of ... the Apes Sun night but had to ditch out to meet my niece's curfew (shut up, she's 27 and on Federal parole; ya perverts) but we're gonna catch it again tonight.  I friggin' *love* these movies.  They're just so damned well-done overall.

The last movie I watched was War for Planet of the Apes, since my whole household is hyped as hell for Kingdom, we had to rewatch the trilogy. We may go for a matinee this weekend.

Yeah, another solid entry in the best scifi movie franchise of the 21C (so far).  Kevin Durand as Proximus is friggin' captivating, it was impossible for me to not look at him at all times.  Peter Macon as Raka as well, for the complete opposite reasons, character-wise.

I do wonder where the female gorillas and orangutans are, tho.  Each of the three Ape species IRL have different social organizations and 'marriage' relationships so I'd think them trying to build a multi-cultural society would be very interesting to see but without their females they're just random hangers-on to the (apparently) human-style pairbonds the Chimps are somewhat shown to have, kinda maybe.  I did notice we never saw Noah's parents interact with each other, so maybe the Chimps aren't actually pairbonding?

ALSO, why in the complete fuck do we get figures of every shitpile to come out of Zach Snyder's no-talent ass but this franchise can't get dick-all? 

The Tillman Story (9 out of 10)

Great documentary, If you wanna go to the military you need to see this movie. the US government is fucked up.

Its about a NFL star that quit the league to go to war due to 9/11 and gets killed due to friendly fire but the govermnt covers it up and uses him as a military propaganda for 9/11, pretty sad.

Caught my 1st "Summer" flick in the theater.  I for the most part enjoyed the new Apes film.  It's a little slow starting out, but I don't mind slow films.  Didn't really care for the lead actress or her character.  Noa has potential to grow as a lead character.  The CG is generally spectacular--and I didn't even see it in a special theater.  Wes Ball did a great job with what he had.  Kudos for following Reeves' excellent work with the franchise.  I don't think the film was as emotional as Rise, but I think I liked the film just as much as that one.  

Looking forward to Furiosa.

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The Tillman Story (9 out of 10)

Great documentary, If you wanna go to the military you need to see this movie. the US government *under Conservative control* is fucked up.

Its about a NFL star that quit the league to go to war due to 9/11 and gets killed due to friendly fire but the *Conservative* govermnt covers it up and uses him as a military propaganda for 9/11, pretty sad.

Just adding details I think are necessary, both for Tillman's case and for general US history.

Furiosa is gonna destroy every eyeball that sets upon it, and I can't wait for it to happen to me.

I saw Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes the other day.

Well, what were the plot decisions?

One thing I've been pondering is how we're still in California.  I had to double-check the Air Traffic Control tower shown as I'd thought we jumped over to the Eastern Seaboard, but this flick takes place in the Los Angeles area.  How far towards becoming the PLANET of the Apes are we if they're all still on the Pacific Coast?  How many generations (centuries?) do we think Kingdom is set? 

Adding up the timeline on wiki tells me Caesar died 12years after 2011's Rise, which would be... 2023, fwiw.

@adrienveidt well to be fair, there's quite a distance between San Francisco and LA. I just drove it a few weeks ago heh.

I wouldn't even know how to guess how many years have passed though. I reeeeally loved all the overgrown buildings though, and enjoyed the apes walking and climbing these structures with no idea about the civilization that birthed them. They're no different than the trees and mountains.

The plot point that bothered me is really the main one. What the movie is about. That Caesar and his group went through alllll that only for descendents to be massive pricks hoping to reproduce the worst aspects of humanity. I get things are cyclical and again, it makes total sense. Just more of a bummer than I was prepared for, heh.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes takes place 300 years after the last film. 300 years.

How do we know that?  All I saw was 'many generations later'.

I think the director said that in an interview but I won't take it as gospel until something on screen corroborates.

Just do a search. I thought it was common knowledge?

"Director Wes Ball set Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 300 years after the previous movies to introduce new characters and conflicts. The 300-year jump allows for a fresh setting with ape civilizations and regressed humans while building upon Caesar's legacy."

"Rather than follow on in the immediate aftermath of Caesar’s death at the end of War For The Planet Of The Apes, Kingdom is taking a major leap forward. The film, directed by Wes Ball, is set roughly 300 years after Caesar delivered his people to their promised land"

"Director Wes Ball's new installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise takes place 300 years after 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes, and in this distant future, apes have fully taken over while humans were believed to be primitive, mute, feral creatures."

etc. etc.